They’d had the robot for a long while. The Remotec Androx Mark V A-1, manufactured by Northrup Grumman, was purchased by the department in 2008. The robot, which cost $151,000, sustained minor ...

They’d had the robot for a long while. The Remotec Androx Mark V A-1, manufactured by Northrup Grumman, was purchased by the department in 2008. The robot, which cost $151,000, sustained minor ...

Remotec, Clinton, Tennessee, is being awarded an $8,801,324 firm-fixed-price ... The MK3 Mod 1 upgrade will improve the serviceability of the robots, increase the availability of the spare parts and ...

Courtesy of Center for the Study of the Drone Last year, the San Jose Police Department used one such robot — a Northrop Grumman Remotec Andros F6A — to deliver a phone and a pizza to an armed ...

On Saturday, authorities reported using a Remotec model F-5 to deliver a one ... A lot of attention has focused on the novelty of using a robot for offensive purposes and what it might mean ...

The most controversial use of one of the robots came in Dallas last July when a U.S. army veteran killed five policemen and wounded seven others. A Remotec robot was used to detonate an explosive ...

At NYPD bomb squad headquarters on City Island a few years ago, Lieutenant Mark Torre gave me a demo using the same robot, the Remotec ANDROS F6A, built by Northrop Grumman. In this scenario ...

None of its robots are currently armed with lethal options, but it has the same Remotec robot the Dallas PD used, and "newer Remotec models have an optional weapons system," The Verge reports.

The robot is made by Northrop Grumman’s subsidiary Remotec. According to the department, the model is an F5 model and used C4 and a “det” cord for the operation. According to experts ...

‘‘In the past, a robot could pick up normally 100 pounds,’’ said Walt Werner, director of Northrop Grumman Remotec. ‘‘Some of the bombs that have been placed in cars are much heavier.

The Dallas Police Department had operated this particular Remotec Andros bomb squad robot since 2008. On that night in July, the police attached a bomb to the robot’s manipulator arm.